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bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- MOSCOW BLOG: Has Navalny started a revolution?
Heads up: I just released this month’s issue of bneTech, our free-to-read newsletter that follows the tech space in New Europe. It covers e-commerce, telecoms, fintech, blockchain and crypto in...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- SPECIAL EDITION: thousands of Russians answer Navalny's call to take to the streets
As the sun comes up over Vladivostok and the dawn in Russia sweeps west on January 23, it quickly became clear that anti-corruption blogger and opposition activist Alexei Navalny call for mass...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Police arresting activists ahead of Saturday’s demonstration in support of Navalny
The holidays are definitely over now and there is lots of news in the list today. US President Joe Biden is off to a fast start: only on the job for two days and he already has a tough...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- OUTLOOK 2021 Poland
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bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe
Moldova’s turn for the OUTLOOK 2021. Poor Moldova. In both the literal and figurative sense. But it has a new west-leaning president, Maia Sandu, who is going to try and make a change. After...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Russian opposition activist Navalny calls for supporters to take to the streets this weekend
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Covering Russia is like going to Belshazzar's feast to discover that Occam and Damocles are also there and already very...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny arrested on arrival as he returns home
What a circus. Anti-corruption blogger and opposition activist Alexei Navalny was arrested at passport control as he returned home on Sunday after spending five months in Berlin recovering from an...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Durov rejects Western funds’ offer to buy 5%-10% of Telegram with $30bn valuation
Sorry! Yesterday we had an email system screw up and in the course of testing it I accidently sent out EDITOR’S PICKS several times. Won’t happen...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Estonian premier quits after Tallinn development scandal
OUTLOOK 2021: Lithuania, Serbia and Georgia today. All three are expecting a good year this year as all three were amongst the least affected by the coronacrisis and should grow strongly in...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Georgia’s political kingpin Bidzina Ivanishvili quits politics
Today’s OUTLOOKs are Czechia, Slovakia and North...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Handfuls of protesters fight on amid Kazakh parliamentary poll that’s little more than a ritual confirming regime’s power
Today’s OUTLOOK 2021 Hungary. Viktor Orban just became Hungary’s longest serving ever prime minister, but he will have a tough time this...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- MOSCOW BLOG: The storming of the US Capitol was not a coup, but the shelling of the Russian White House was
The US was rocked by the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters which has widely been described as an attempted coup d'état. Personally I think that is going a bit far as there was...